In the run up to the 2015 General Elections, IGP N. K. Illangakoon yesterday praised police officers countrywide for conducting their duties without bias and enforcing election laws.

Arts and Cultural Affairs Minister Nandimithra Ekanayake was humiliated at an election rally of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in Na-ula today when the crowd started hooting him.

United Citizens' Front (UCF) Leader Tissa Attanayake said today the Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) manifesto is a threat to the country's sovereignty because it calls for the pardoning of the LTTE.

Police said today that it would launch a probe if a complaint is received regarding a statement allegedly made by Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) Colombo district candidate Watareka Vijitha Thera that he would to tear the National Flag and trample it.

Former first lady Hema Premadasa today extended support to Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka for his Colombo District campaign for the August 17 general election, a media release from his office said.

Under instructions of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a collective of lawyers had sent Letters of Demand to five persons including Minister Mangala Samaraweera, Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayaka and JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka for alleged

The 38-year-old underworld gangster Indika Nilusha alias "Ukkuwa" was killed and two others were injured in a shooting incident at Tangalle this morning, Police said.

Veteran cartoonist and comic strip writer Daya Rajapakse died at the National Hospital in Colombo this morning at the age of 78.

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) said today that they would lodge a complaint with the IGP over threats allegedly received from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to its General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera.

President Maithripala Sirisena will undertake a state visit to participate at the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Maldives on July 26 in Male, the Foreign Ministry said.

Former UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardane today said he was ready to face Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake in court if the minister sued him over charging the government of privatizing state owned Litro Gas Lanka Ltd.

The UPFA today charged the present government had reduced the number of lanes of the Northern Expressway planned by the previous government in order to show that it was able to reduce the cost of the project.

Senior DIG Ravi Senaviratne of CID had been appointed as the Senior DIG of Sabaragamuwa and Uva Provinces by the Public Law and Order Ministry Secretary with the approval of Elections Commissioner, the police said today.

The Madras High Court Bench on Friday set aside an “illegal conviction and seven-year sentence” imposed by a trial court on three people, alleged to be LTTE sympathisers, on charges of conspiring to smuggle acetone, glycerine, formaldehyd

The Army has maintained that its involvement in the Northern Province is limited ‘only to demining, construction works and infrastructure development in connection with the resettlement of people.’

A decision will be taken at the next SLFP Central Committee (CC) meeting to remove the five CC members who are contesting the parliamentary election from the United National Front for good Governance (UNFGG), party sources said.

The 35-year-old three wheeler driver, Hewa Narandeniyage Chaminda of Makandura Kalahagama, who was involved in the controversial Akuressa incident of grasping the hands of former President and Kurunegala UPFA candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa said he held

With the Matale Magistrate observing that the Matale mass grave case could not be pursued further as a criminal case, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday said it would appeal against it in a higher court.

In an emphatic response to UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardena, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said there was no attempt at all to privatize Litro Gas Lanka Ltd.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said he would appoint a committee headed by a retired judge to investigate fraud related to the Golden Key case.

The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) Task Force has arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of distributing obscene pictures of a 16-year-old girl using his mobile phone.

Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa turning aggressive cannot be blamed for the incident at the Akuressa rally because those who pushed him to make a comeback have to be blamed for such behavior, State Minister for Child and Women’s Affairs, Rosy Se

Dinithi Aloka Ranasinghe -- the student alleged to have been abducted and held in custody by Minister Rajitha Senaratne’s son Eksath -- has been prevented from travelling abroad on an order by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya.

A 21-hour water cut will be imposed in some parts of Colombo from 08.00 a.m. tomorrow to 05.00 a.m. on Sunday (26) because of a compulsory repair work in the Kalatuwawa water treatment plant, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) said.